Steve Lambert Editor (Sport) Ex-England Captain Rio Ferdinand and current England manager Roy Hodgson have joined the Football Association Commission in an attempt to improve the current squad that is looking forward to the World Cup finals next year in Brazil. Hodgson, who has a wealth of managerial experience, will provide a valuable asset in the attempt to improve the national squad to a level where they could become a genuine challenger for the European […]
Steve Lambert Editor (Sport) The qualifying stages of the World Cup have come to a close and we now know the nine teams from Europe that are certain to be at the finals next year in Brazil. Meanwhile, another eight second-placed teams have been given a last chance to get through, having to wait until next month to compete in the play offs. In Group A, already champions Belgium had to make do with […]
Lais Fulgencio, Editor (South America) Two of the 30 Greenpeace activists, Brazilian biologist Ana Paula Maciel and a British cameraman, were formally charged on September 2 this week for piracy, according to Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Kreindlin. The two activists were detained in Russia for organising a protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic and are the only two accused of piracy by the Russian authorities for now. If convicted, they face up to 15 […]
Laís Fulgencio, Editor (South America) BRASILIA — The G3, created in 2003 by Brazil, India and South Africa as a forum for direct dialogue between nations with common interests, announced on Wednesday, September 25, a joint statement condemning the actions of espionage of the United States on Brazil and supporting the Brazilian proposal for a new “global governance of the Internet” to ensure data security. For the governments of India and South Africa, access […]
Lais Fulgencio, Correspondent (Tech) CURITIBA — Have you ever imagined your skills and free time being used as a bargaining chip? Bliive, released in May in Curitiba, Brazil, is a collaborative network of trading time where this is possible. Based on historical transformations generated by the exchange of time, Bliive revolutionises the value of time and brings people together to collaborate. The idea of Bliive first came across when its creator watched documentaries on […]
Lais Fulgencio, Correspondent (South America) BRASILIA — The Brazilian government has appointed a new Foreign Minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo. He was chosen by President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, after the resignation of former Minister Antonio Patriota. Patriota’s exit from the ministry is related to the the arrival of Bolivian Senator, Roger Pinto Molina, who had been convicted by Bolivian government for many offences. He was in exile for more than a year in the Brazilian […]
Pranav Padiyar, Correspondent (Travel) It is often the journey we take that defines us. A journey encompasses a whole range of emotions — from the excitement of the first step to the sorrow of the last on your way home, we feel everything. Bolivia is a landlocked country in the South Americas bordered by Brazil to the northeast, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest and Peru to the west. The […]
Júlia Baldanza, Correspondent (Travel) Travelling is a strange thing. You go to new places, meet new people, discover different perspectives. But in the end, you always end up comparing the places and people with your home. As a Brazilian girl travelling through Europe a few things cannot help but stand out. Back home, using the public transportation can be an adventure! You never know when the next bus/ subway will pass. Sometimes the driver […]
Joe Paley, Correspondent (Sport) The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, put his 2011 false start in Daegu, South Korea to bed as he ran 9.77 to win the 100m World Championship title in Moscow on Sunday night. Bolt, 26, who ran 9.58 in Berlin four years ago, was far from his personal best but proved good enough to ease to another world title in extremely wet conditions in Moscow. The race was missing a number […]
Lais Fulgêncio Correspondent (South America) BRASILIA — Last June, the world learned about the largest monitoring program in mass communications of all times, sponsored by the National Security Agency, the NSA, of the United States government. The revelations were made by a former consultant Edward Snowden, who during his work for the NSA copied thousands of classified documents which were initially leaked to the British newspaper, The Guardian. Last month, the Brazilian newspaper, O Globo, revealed […]
